August 29, 2012
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 Jurors' Choice award winner Paul Kratter with a display of his paintings | |
| News: | |
 Artists' Choice winner Kristine Pallas | Napa Valley, CA Art Festival The 5th annual Napa Valley Art Festival was held on Saturday, August 18, in Yountville, California, with more than 25 professional artists exhibiting their paintings. Find out who participated, and which artist offered a painting demonstration. [read more] |
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 Sandra Hildreth (left) with winner Christa Pisano | Saranac Lake, NY Art Works Event Artists painted at the Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Center among many other locations around town during the Saranac Lake Art Works event from August 16-19, 2012. Ann Larsen served as juror. Find out who won the Best of Show award. [read more] |
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 Cindy Baron, Jonathan McPhillips, and Mark Fernandez participating in the plein air event. | Newport, RI Art Museum Some plein air events are fundraisers during which participating artists donate most or all of the value of their artwork to support an art center, museum, school, or community organization. That was the case with the recent Wet Paint 2012 at the Newport Art Museum in Rhode Island. [read more] |
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 Dotty Kyle (left) and Jane Sandberg painting the 1833 covered bridge in Mad River Valley in Vermont. | The Great Vermont Plein Air Paint-OutThe 2nd annual Great Vermont Plein Air Paint-Out in the Mad River Valley was a huge success. Sponsored by the Valley Arts Foundation and the Big Red Barn Art Show, artists spent Saturday, August 18 "Painting the Village." [read more] |
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| Events: | |
 Sprague House in Crescent City, Florida | A New Plein Air Event in FloridaThe
Community Redevelopment Agency and the City of Crescent City, Florida are sponsoring the first Plein Air Paint Out and Shoot Out Fall Festival in Crescent City, Florida in September of 2012. [read more] |
 The exterior of View in Old Forge, NY | Old Forge, NY Plein Air Paint OutAnother anticipated plein air event is being organized
to support View, the wonderful new arts community
building in Old Forge, New York will be held over Labor Day weekend
(August 31-September 2). Find out how this annual event makes programs
possible at View. [read more] |
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| Exhibits: | |
 Chris Adessa,
one of the artists who organized this exhibition of large paintings | Big Paintings for a Big Cause Seven San Francisco Bay Area artists are joining forces with the San Francisco chapter of the Surfrider Foundation by creating large-scale (minimum six feet) waterscapes for a fundraising exhibition to support coastal cleanup. [read more] |
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| Extreme Plein Air: | |
 Inside the Army Chinook helicopter that rescued artist Gary Geraths, with another visible out the window. | Lost, But Still Painting Last spring, Californian Gary Geraths got so lost on a painting trip through the Anazasi canyons of Utah that he had to signal to Army Chinook helicopter pilots to rescue him. The good news is he still had his completed watercolor paintings after he'd hiked several hundred miles back to his car. [read more] |
 Jim McVicker painting in a cow pasture. | Becoming One With the Cows Jim McVicker finds that after he has been painting near animals for a while, their curiosity is satisfied and they leave him alone. That's what happened when he painted in a cow pasture, although he did learn not to keep his tasty painting supplies out and available. [read more] |
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 Patti Mollica painting along 5th Avenue in Manhattan near the New York Public Library | Crowd Painting in New York City Plein air painting in the middle of midtown Manhattan? Patti Mollica just finished two weeks of painting for nine hours a day amid the traffic and crowds around the New York Public Library on 5th Avenue. Find out about her amazing experiences. [read more] |
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| Artist Profile: | |
 Michael Albrechtsen painting near his home in Kansas | Seeing God in Nature In the August/September issue of PleinAir magazine, Michael Albrechtsen talked about how educating yourself about the botany, biology, geology, and the climate of a particular landscape can help you paint a more effective picture. In addition to his interest in the sciences, nature means something more to the Utah native and Kansas resident: an awe-inspiring example of God's creation. (Reported by Bob Bahr) [read more] |
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